Opening another application causes VSCode to capture the "Return/Enter" multiple times

[olafurw]

Type: Bug

So this is a weird one. I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 and I noticed that when I pressed the "super" key and type Firefox and hit Enter to open Firefox, that enter command gets "stuck" and VSCode will press Enter multiple times.

This does not happen with other applications. So if I open Text Editor and then open Firefox, text editor will not add a bunch of Enter commands into the window.

Also this only happens with "heavy" applications. So if I have VSCode open and open Text Editor, that "Enter" command to open Text Editor will not stick.

This is very annoying because if you have VSCode open in some code file and then open Firefox, then a bunch of newlines will be added to the file.

Repro is basically.
Ubuntu 24.04.
Open VSCode and have it focused.
Press the super/win button. Type "Firefox", press Enter.
See that a lot of the enter commands are being captured by VSCode.

Here is a video of me reproducing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etKd8sNq18

VS Code version: Code 1.89.0 (b58957e, 2024-05-01T02:08:25.066Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-31-generic
Modes:

System Info

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Extensions (7)

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copilot	Git	1.186.0
copilot-chat	Git	0.15.0
vscode-typescript-next	ms-	5.5.20240502
svelte-vscode	sve	108.4.1

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[liheyuan]

may be a wayland problem see #212430

[olafurw]

Does not happen anymore after normal package updates and kernel/os updates.